Can I Fix This Antique Pistol - New Main Spring

In this video I repair and conserve an antique percussion pocket pistol. If you like this video would like to buy me a coffee? Please click the link below, thank you, it is very much appreciated. buymeacoffee.com/morriscarstairs

[@daveyjoweaver6282]

Just a beautiful museum piece so well done! Kind Thanks and Many Blessings! DaveyJO in Pennsylvania

[@kirkboswell2575]

Very good craftsmanship, sir. I will mention in passing that any scratches left on a spring will ALWAYS become a future breaking point. In other words, use soft jawed pliers after the spring is made and tempered.
The only exception to this is scratches that run lengthwise of the spring. Those won't cause issues.

[@paulbervid1610]

Great repair work

[@nigelkavanagh2048]

Nice little pistol! A job well done sir. 👏👏👏

[@kdknitro]

I really like the look of these pistols, ive been wanting to make a black powder pistol for a while but need some machines first. Thanks for doing these projects they help me learn a bit about gun repairs on these old guns.

[@fantaklaus9279]

Прекрасный пистолет! Отличная работа! Обожаю латунные детали)

[@zippyjohnson9967]

Awesome 😎👍 First!
Another pocket pistol too, and this one is like mine. You've certainly brightened up my night . 🙃

[@morriscarstairs2685]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.

[@rumeunner3245]

Always put the spanner on the underside of the pistol body before turning, there's more metal and less likely to buckle and potentially break.

[@morriscarstairs2685]

Thanks, I'll do that.

[@rumeunner3245]

@@morriscarstairs2685 but the result turned out well, I'm rather envious of that pistol, and I used to have a similar one made in Belgium around 1860ish.

[@kriseckhardt5148]

Good job sir! No test firing?

[@morriscarstairs2685]

Thanks, I would love too, but I don't have a firearms certificate.

[@rumeunner3245]

And it's the overly restrictive United Kingdom as well.

[@dekirk4101]

Great video! I don't understand UK firearms law. You can own functional antique firearms, but are unable to fire them? Or is it that you just can't own powder and shot?

[@morriscarstairs2685]

Thanks, you can own unlimited antique firearms in the UK without a firearms certificate, if the guns is possessed as an ornament or curiosity i.e. a collectable. This would be antique flintlock, percussion, pinfire and also obsolete calibre pistols of which the government publishes an official list. However, some calibres which were on the list have now been taken off. such as .44 Russian and British .320 as criminals were using them. If you owned one of these calibres you had to obtain a firearms certificate to keep possessing it. If you do own an antique, say percussion shotgun, and you wanted take it clay shooting you'd have to apply for a firearms certificate and have the shotgun put on it. Also you'd need to obtain a black power license to buy powder. The really dumb thing is that if you buy a new reproduction Colt 1860 from Pedersoli, for example, you need to have a firearms certificate to possess it, but you could freely buy an antique Colt 1860 without any need for a certificate and possess it. This is just a brief overview, the fact is that the government here are making it as hard as possible to own a gun.

[@dekirk4101]

@@morriscarstairs2685 Very interesting. I reside in the US, and, under federal law, guns that do not use self-contained ammunition are not legally firearms. This includes flintlocks and percussion guns, even percussion revolvers. (our forefathers would probably be greatly offended by this). The problem here is the great difference in local and state laws from the federal laws. You may own a gun that is completely legal and unregulated in one state, drive a few miles over a state line and be committing a felony just for possessing it.

[@markosterman419]

Such an aggressive steel wool for cleaning that wood.

[@morriscarstairs2685]

Not really, 0000 grade, no damage to the wood.

[@garydawson6346]

good day. I just received an antique box-lock flintlock pocket pistol, unfortunately it is missing the cock and cross pin. Is there any hope of finding parts to complete it?

[@morriscarstairs2685]

Well you'd have to make the cross pin as I did in this video, on the cock there are two companies I know of which supply castings of original gun parts: Google Peter Dyson and E J Blackley & Son.

[@garydawson6346]

@@morriscarstairs2685 thanks and keep up the good work.

[@KathrynLiz1]

Gosh, that's making a spring the hard way... I just forge them on the anvil....

[@morriscarstairs2685]

Great, can you make a video showing us how you do it?

[@anabellenetrosio3237]

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